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Good yield, fair price delight marginal banana growers

Good yield, fair price delight marginal banana growers

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-18 12:21:35

Banana farming has brought smile on the faces of hundred of marginal farmers in the district this season as they got a bumper production of the produce. The growers are also delighted over the good ma...

Cultivation of zinc-enriched rice gaining popularity in Pabna

Cultivation of zinc-enriched rice gaining popularity in Pabna

Our Correspondent 2017-12-18 12:10:14

Cultivation of zinc-enriched rice is gaining popularity in the district. Zinc is essential for human body, and a substantial portion of its demand can be met by consuming this rice variety. Khalilur...

Ctg BNP vice-president Mohammad Ali dies

Ctg BNP vice-president Mohammad Ali dies

-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00

Chittagong city BNP vice-president Mohammad Ali passed away at a port city hospital on Sunday night. He was 49. Ali breathed his last at National Hospital in Mehedibagh area of the city around 8:00pm...

Baby dies in Dhaka mugging

Baby dies in Dhaka mugging

FE Online Desk 2017-12-18 12:00:00

A woman has lost her five-month-old boy after he fell down from her lap as muggers attacked her in Dhaka city on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Arafat, son of Shah Alam and Aklima Begum,...

CU teacher lands in jail over Diaz murder

CU teacher lands in jail over Diaz murder

-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00

Former assistant proctor of Chittagong University (CU), Anwar Hossain, has been sent to jail after a Chittagong court denied him bail over the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Diaz Irfan Cho...

Child heroes step up to stop train derailment

Child heroes step up to stop train derailment

-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00

Two brave children have stepped up their efforts to save a Rajshahi-bound freight train from a possible accident. The incident took place around 9:00am on Monday in Bagha Upazila of the district when...

10 die in stampede during ex Ctg mayor's qulkhwani

10 die in stampede during ex Ctg mayor's qulkhwani

-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00

At least 10 people have died and about 50 others sustained injuries in a stampede at the qulkhwani of former Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury on Monday. Nine of them died on the spot, and the...

Turkish PM arrives with Rohingya on top of agenda

Turkish PM arrives with Rohingya on top of agenda

-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim arrived in Dhaka Monday night on a two-day official visit. He has come here to discuss Rohingya and other issues at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart...

Bangladesh will remember Indian, Russian war veterans: PM

Bangladesh will remember Indian, Russian war veterans: PM

-- 2017-12-18 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh will never forget immense sacrifice and contributions of Indian and Russian war veterans during its 1971 liberation war. Sheikh Hasina made the remark...

Gazipur cylinder explosion toll reaches 3

Gazipur cylinder explosion toll reaches 3

-- 2017-12-18 11:52:53

Another person, who was hospitalised for burn wounds after an explosion at the FS Cosmetics factory in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir Upazila, has died. The deceased has been identified as Naznin Begum, 2...

Fakhrul accuses Ershad of influencing RpCC polls

Fakhrul accuses Ershad of influencing RpCC polls

-- 2017-12-18 10:51:40

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday accused Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad of influencing the Rangpur City Corporation polls despite being the PM's adviser. "You've a chawal...

Only eligible person will get AL ticket: Quader

Only eligible person will get AL ticket: Quader

-- 2017-12-18 10:33:17

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader Monday said his party would like to nominate a person, who bears  the maximum acceptability of the people, in the forthcoming mayoral election t...

Padma Bridge construction: Design flaws found in eight more piers

Padma Bridge construction: Design flaws found in eight more piers

Munima Sultana 2017-12-18 10:14:24

The work of Padma Bridge construction is increasingly getting complicated for difficulty in resolving the problems that have cropped up with its design. The problems have already put the project sl...

‘Banks should court mergers and acquisitions for bailout’

‘Banks should court mergers and acquisitions for bailout’

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2017-12-18 10:03:38

Banks in Bangladesh should go through mergers and acquisitions, which a leading banker believes will make the overall banking sector better and stronger through troubleshooting. "I think merger and a...

Ershad dismisses doubts regarding fair RpCC polls

Ershad dismisses doubts regarding fair RpCC polls

-- 2017-12-18 09:26:42

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Monday dismissed any doubt of having a fair and neutral Rangpur City Corporation polls on December 21. He also said there is no need to deploy army in the election...

Boro seedlings in plastic trays on  rooftop getting popular in Jhenidah

Boro seedlings in plastic trays on rooftop getting popular in Jhenidah

-- 2017-12-18 08:49:23

Our CorrespondentJHENIDAH, Dec 18: Growing Boro paddy seedlings in plastic trays on the rooftop of concrete buildings and on domestic yards are becoming popular with many farmers in Shailkupa upazila...

Environmental pollution costs 12 factories Tk 120m

Environmental pollution costs 12 factories Tk 120m

-- 2017-12-18 08:38:32

The Department of Environment (DoE) on Monday slapped a fine of Tk 120 million to 12 factories for polluting the environment in Dhaka and four other districts. DoE Director (Monitoring and Enforcemen...

RAJUK evicts illegal building portions in Mirpur

RAJUK evicts illegal building portions in Mirpur

-- 2017-12-18 07:35:53

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) conducted an eviction drive in the city's Mirpur residential area on Monday and removed unauthorised portion of a number of buildings.  A BSS report says th...

Armed forces need to work together with people: PM

Armed forces need to work together with people: PM

-- 2017-12-18 07:20:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the armed forces of Bangladesh need to work together with people to ensure the desired development. Sheikh Hasina said the government calls the army whenever any...

ACC launches probe against irregularities of Hajj agencies

ACC launches probe against irregularities of Hajj agencies

-- 2017-12-18 06:25:59

The Anti-Corruption Commission recently started investigation against the mismanagement and irregularities of Hajj agencies in 2017. Acting secretary of Religious Affair Ministry Anisur Rahman said r...

Question leak leads to primary school exam postponement!

Question leak leads to primary school exam postponement!

-- 2017-12-18 05:12:15

After widespread allegations of question paper leak in different age group public examinations and even professional tests, the menace has now hit the primary school students. The final examinations...

RAB detains two with Indian liquor

RAB detains two with Indian liquor

-- 2017-12-18 04:29:55

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people and recovered Indian liquor worth around Tk 2 lakh from their possession at Muksedpur area of Tahirpur thana in Sunamganj district on early...

Garlic farming in Nilphamari going on in full swing

Garlic farming in Nilphamari going on in full swing

Our Correspondent 2017-12-18 04:20:00

The cultivation of garlic is going on in full swing across the Nilphamari district. Owing to the inexpensive cultivation method and high per bigha production rate, a good number of farmers are gettin...

SC stays bail to Apan Jewellers owners

SC stays bail to Apan Jewellers owners

-- 2017-12-18 03:42:17

The Chamber Judge of the Supreme Court on Monday stayed the High Court order until December 21 that granted bail to three owners of Apan Jewellers in three money laundering cases. The owners are Dild...

Prime Bank gets new MD

Prime Bank gets new MD

FE Online Desk 2017-12-18 02:53:07

The Board of Directors of Prime Bank Limited has appointed Rahel Ahmed as new Managing Director & CEO of the bank, recently. Rahel Ahmed has been working as DMD and Chief Business Officer of the...

Bangladesh Commerce Bank shifts branch

Bangladesh Commerce Bank shifts branch

FE Online Desk 2017-12-18 01:33:36

Bangladesh Commerce Bank Limited (BCB) has shifted its Muradpur Branch Chittagong to a prime location, recently. Dr Engr Rashid Ahmed Chowdhury, Chairman of the Board of Directors of BCB, was present...

M’singh petrol bomb blast injures two

M’singh petrol bomb blast injures two

-- 2017-12-17 12:49:36

Two people were injured as a petrol bomb was hurled on a procession at Shahganj Bazar in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh district on Saturday night. The procession was brought out protesting the recen...

Miscreants hack BCL member to death

Miscreants hack BCL member to death

-- 2017-12-17 12:46:16

A local activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed to death by a group of miscreants at Katakhal village in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore on Saturday afternoon.  The deceased was...

Mob beats ‘cattle thief’ to death

Mob beats ‘cattle thief’ to death

-- 2017-12-17 12:31:52

An alleged cattle thief was beaten to death by a mob at Sadipur in Faridpur Sadar upazila on early Sunday. The dead is Mati Sheikh (29), hailing from Bilmamudpur village. Quoting locals, police said...

DNCC by-polls in last week of February: EC

DNCC by-polls in last week of February: EC

FE Online Desk 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The Election Commission (EC) will hold the by-polls for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in the last week of February next year. The schedule will be announced in January, said its acting secretar...